Formerly attributed to Guido Reni (1575-1642) and afterwards long housed with the anonymous drawings at the Morgan, this sheet was recognized by Scott Bacon (in an email to John Marciari) as a study by Tiarini for the lunettes on the north side of the portico of San Francesco in Bologna, completed in 1646. The drawing is a study for the central figure in the scene of "St. Anthony goes to the Convent."
Watermark: Unidentified letters with trefoil.
Reni, Guido, 1575-1642, Formerly attributed to.
Piancastelli, Giovanni, 1845-1926, former owner.
Brandegee, Edward, former owner.
Brandegee, Mary, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Neumeyer, Alfred, and János Scholz. Drawings from Bologna 1520-1800. Oakland : Mills College Art Gallery, 1957, no. 97 (as Reni).
Italian Drawings from the János Scholz Collection. New York : Staten Island Museum, 1961, no. 40.
Italian Baroque Drawings from the János Scholz Collection. Columbia, S.C. : Columbia Museum of Art, 1961, no. 67.
Italienische Meisterzeichnungen vom 14. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert aus amerikanischem Besitz : Die Sammlung János Scholz, New York. Hamburg : H. Christians, 1963, no. 131.
Old Master Drawings, exh., Reed College, Portland, 1965, no. 8 (according to donor's records; curator at Reed College confirms exhibition of works from a private collection in New York, but has no checklist).
Italian Drawings from the János Scholz Collection. Norton, Mass. : Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, 1971, no. 21.
Alfred Moir, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, no. 95, repr.